Subject: Re: ethernet dhcp, mol ethertap, doesn't work
From: Samuel Rydh (samuel@ibrium.se)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 12:25:20 MDT
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:25:10PM -0400, R Shapiro wrote:
> Samuel Rydh writes:
> > > - created ethertap dev node
> > > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 36, 16 Oct 17 19:26 /dev/tap0
> > This is not necessary (the /dev/tap0 interface is obsolete, the
> > tap device is accessed through netlink).
>
> Even better. Given this, do I need ethertap support in the kernel at
> all? My preferred kernel does not include ethertap (I'm pretty sure I
> did include netlink when I configured it). I built a new kernel with
> ethertap just for mol, and I'd rather go back to my usual kernel if I
> can.
Yes, you do. However, I'm thinking about bundling the ethertap kernel
module with mol. This way, the tap device would always support AppleTalk
(currently, it is necessary to edit the source to achieve this).
Would this be useful?
Cheers,
/Samuel
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